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APPARATUS FOR BURNING HYDROCARBON OILS.

SPECl-ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,887, dated October 2l, 1884.

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Be it known that I, HENRY W. WHrrING. a citizen ofthe United States, residing at 3.70() Spring` arden street, in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Improvement in Apparatus for BurningHydrocarbon O1ls,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement in ap,- paratus for burning hydrocarbon oils by passing hydrocarbon oils alone, or by passing hydrocarbon oils and steam together, or hydrocarbon 'oils and water togethenthrough heated pipes or chambers, either coiled, straight, or

bent, whichever may be inost convenient.

The invention consists ofthe following parts, in combination: a steam-pipe, an oil-pipe connected therewith, a superheater in the form of a coil, and a pipe passing through the coil and leading to the burner, which is so placed that the flame is discharged along the lastnamed pipe aud through the suporheatencoils, for the purpose c'fheatingthe mingled oil and steam on its passage to the burner.

The objects of my improvements are, first, the more complete and perfect vaporization of hydrocarbon oils; second, to insure perfect salety in burning hydrocarbon oils. by preventing back-pressure and danger from accumulated gases; third, to prevent carbonization or the formation of residuum within the apparatus. I attain these objects by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure l is an exterior view, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view,ot' an apparatus containing my invention, the nature of which is duly set forth in the claim hereinafter presented.

ln Figs. l and 2 of the drawings7 upright pipe a represents a conduit for supplying the oil to the apparatus.

Horizontal pipe b represents a conduit for supplying the steam or water (whichever may be used) to the apparatus.

rIhe chamber c is the point where the oil and water or oil and steam come in contact.

d and e represent chambers wherein the vapor is superheated.

j' is the orifice from which thc vapor or gas is ejected.

The said chambers are formed in a tube consisting of a coiled part, d, and a straight part, c, which extends backward through said coils, this straight part terminating in a burner, nozzle, or dischargeorilice. f, the flame from which is directed on the coils ofthe part d in a line parallel to the part e, and at apoint near the latter. in order that both parts or chambers l e of said tube may be duly subjected to the heat of said burner.

The apparatus. as shown in Figs. l and 2, is operated as follows: Open the valve at the conduit a,\vhich will allow the oil to pass from a reservoir through the conduit a into the chamber c, then open the valve at I), so that the steam or water (whichever may be used) may pass through the conduit b to the chamber, c, where it will come in Contact with the oil from conduit a, then together from the chamber c they are passed into the chambers d and c, which are in the path of a flame and intensely heated, and in which they are togeth er instantly converted into a hydrocarbon vapor or gas, which is forced, to the orifice f, and from thence ejected and burned. the flame from which is thrown upon the chambers d and c, and which orifice, to prevent excessive pressure. is made larger than the conduits a and b combined.

Any suitable means may be applied to introduce the steam or the water (whichever may bc used) into conduit b.

. By experimentation I rind that the diams ter of the orifice of the superheating chambers should be made large enough to allow any excess of pressure to pass out of the burner,

' thereby insuring perfect safety and freedom from clogging by the formation of residuuln.

I am aware that prior to my invention hydrocarbon oils have been burned in conjunction with air in coiled pipes, and that also coiled pipes have heen used to superheat steam for the purpose of heating and va-porining theoil. I therefore do not claim such a combina tion. broadly; but

"What l do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A hydrocarbon-burner formed of piping, and consisting of the following parts in com` bination: the steam-pipe b, oil-pipe a, oonnected therewith,the superheater d in the form of a coil, and the pipe e, passing through the IOO C011 and lending' to the burner, which is so hund in the presume@ of Lwo subscribing wit :placed that the flame is discharged along the messes.

pipe e and through the supe1jIwater'-c0ils for n MT r fr H, ,1 T ..1

the purpose 0f heating the mingled oil and HDBRX XX XX Hulk 5 steam on its passage to the burner, substzm- Witnesses:

tially as descrxlwd. .ARCHER MULEAN,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my XV. J. SMYTH. 

